# Is network detection cheaper than hiring a security analyst?

Usually yes in licence cost, but it is not a substitute: a tool detects, a person decides and responds. A security analyst is a salary plus training, holidays and the fact that one person cannot cover nights and weekends alone. Network detection runs at every hour, never takes holidays and watches devices that no one could check by hand, but it cannot judge whether a strange connection is a supplier's maintenance or an intruder, call the right person or restore a server. For most small and mid-sized companies the realistic choice is not tool or analyst, but tool plus the people you already have: your administrator, your IT provider and an incident-response firm on call. Compare honestly with your own salary figures. NetSenX costs from €0 on the Free plan to €249 per month on Business, and it is built so that a generalist can act on its alerts without being a security specialist.

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## Read next

- https://netsenx.com/en/pricing
- https://netsenx.com/en/ndr-for-small-business

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